Privacy

The principle

This site publishes what my station received from the sky. It does not try to learn who you are. No advertising, no commercial trackers, no profiling. The only visitor-side measurements are aggregate audience figures and anti-spam protection on the form, described below.

The aviation data

The log holds aircraft transponder data (registrations, types, positions), public by nature and unrelated to the site's visitors. No personal data about you appears in it.

The contact form

If you write to me, your name, e-mail address and message are kept so I can reply, and sent to my inbox. They are never sold, used for marketing, or shared with third parties. You can ask for their deletion at any time.

Passage alerts

If you request a passage alert, the station keeps: your email address, the chosen aircraft and the timestamps (request, confirmation, delivery attempts). Nothing else.

The alert only arms after your click in the confirmation email (double opt-in). An unconfirmed request erases itself after 48 hours. After the single alert email, the row erases completely; re-arming it is a new consent. Unsubscribing, from the link in every email, erases immediately. An alert whose aircraft never returns erases after one year.

This is one of only two places on the site where data is erased, the other being the removal of a guestbook entry at its author's request: everywhere else, nothing is deleted. Here, your address never stays in the database without a living consent.

Audience measurement

The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics: an aggregate audience measure, without cookies and without browser fingerprinting, that does not track visitors across sites. It tells me how many visits and which pages, never your identity.

Form protection

The contact form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, an anti-robot check without tracking cookies and without intrusive visual puzzles. It serves only to keep automated submissions out.

Your rights

You can request access to the data you sent me through the form, its correction or its erasure, by writing through that same form. I handle these requests myself, without intermediaries.

You can also ask for an aircraft to be removed from public display: write to me through the contact form, giving the registration or Mode S address. There are two answers, and you choose.

Anonymisation, which I offer by default: the aircraft keeps appearing and stays counted in every measurement on the site, but its identity no longer leaves the server. The public sees an aircraft type and a track, never who it is. The registration, Mode S address, serial number, year of build, country, operator, callsign, route and photograph are all withheld; the aircraft page ceases to exist, it can no longer be found by a search, it no longer appears in any fleet, and no alert can follow it.

Hiding the aircraft, if you prefer: the aircraft disappears from the whole site, its flights included. That is more radical, and it removes from my figures contacts that did take place; this is why I offer anonymisation first.

In both cases the effect is immediate and reversible, and it also holds for the future: a request may cover a whole fleet, and an aircraft joining that fleet later will be treated the same way from its first contact. Depending on the case, I may ask for proof of a legitimate connection to the aircraft before any removal.

The station location

The station's public location is limited to "western Switzerland" and the locator JN36HO. The precise location is never published, neither in text, nor in metadata, nor in photos.